“In the McLean and Langley Pyramid if you don't go to college, don't get into a ‘good’ college, you are seen as a let down to your school, your family and your community,” said Melissa Sporn, a mental health professional and SCC board member. “As a result I am routinely seeing patients in my practice who are overstressed, overworked and overwhelmed. Many of these students deal with these pressures by self-medicating with drugs and alcohol, cutting and/or engaging in other negative behaviors.”

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Anonymous wrote:Me. My kid went to Langley and some of her friends still go to Langley. Furthermore, the parents in this community send their kids to Langley. Therefore, it makes sense that we are very much in touch with the Langley community on the whole. So I think that makes me qualified to share my viewpoint on what goes on there. It's not everyone's experience, but is anything?

I've posted this comment before by a mental health professional in the area:

“In the McLean and Langley Pyramid if you don't go to college, don't get into a ‘good’ college, you are seen as a let down to your school, your family and your community,” said Melissa Sporn, a mental health professional and SCC board member. “As a result I am routinely seeing patients in my practice who are overstressed, overworked and overwhelmed. Many of these students deal with these pressures by self-medicating with drugs and alcohol, cutting and/or engaging in other negative behaviors.”

This is the link:

http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/news/2013/nov/12/scc-takes-aim-student-stress/


I know who is posting; I will not expose this person. Not my style.

I don't know Melissa Sporn, but she's absolutely right.
Signed, McLean resident

Anonymous wrote:Me. My kid went to Langley and some of her friends still go to Langley. Furthermore, the parents in this community send their kids to Langley. Therefore, it makes sense that we are very much in touch with the Langley community on the whole. So I think that makes me qualified to share my viewpoint on what goes on there. It's not everyone's experience, but is anything?

I've posted this comment before by a mental health professional in the area:

“In the McLean and Langley Pyramid if you don't go to college, don't get into a ‘good’ college, you are seen as a let down to your school, your family and your community,” said Melissa Sporn, a mental health professional and SCC board member. “As a result I am routinely seeing patients in my practice who are overstressed, overworked and overwhelmed. Many of these students deal with these pressures by self-medicating with drugs and alcohol, cutting and/or engaging in other negative behaviors.”

This is the link:

http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/news/2013/nov/12/scc-takes-aim-student-stress/


I know who is posting; I will not expose this person. Not my style.

Anonymous wrote:The anti-Langley bully back to kill another thread.

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Anonymous wrote:"Crazy U" should be required reading for every parent and high school teacher who cares, but especially for the Fairfax County School Board.

Anyone think the Board would read it?

they want their version of the Oscar, so no

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Anonymous wrote::04--You're insufferable. I have no idea what kid post you're pretending instigated your 5+ responses. And then multiply that times the numerous threads where you've paraded out your bag of "facts". We get it. Some schools suck for some kids. Thanks.

What about Bullis? I've heard that place really sucks for kids.

Anonymous wrote::04--You're insufferable. I have no idea what kid post you're pretending instigated your 5+ responses. And then multiply that times the numerous threads where you've paraded out your bag of "facts". We get it. Some schools suck for some kids. Thanks.

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Anonymous wrote:The anti-Langley bully back to kill another thread.

If you look back at my post prior to the kid's response, I didn't mention Langley - the kid did.

The kid made you good it? There's an excuse in every single thread. It's really tiresome.

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Anonymous wrote:The anti-Langley bully back to kill another thread.

If you look back at my post prior to the kid's response, I didn't mention Langley - the kid did.

Anonymous wrote:The anti-Langley bully back to kill another thread.

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Anonymous wrote:Those statements could be attributed to any school and I don't care who says them, it is an opinion-not a fact. And, I am not a part of the McLean Langley community.

Any school with the same demographics, yes. But she IS talking about what she sees in her practice. I have heard the same thing from other medical professionals in the area. I assumed they know of what they speak

A mental health professional whose office is in downtown McLean is going to see more kids from Langley and McLean than from other schools. I will give Dr. Sporn the benefit of the doubt, and assume that she's reporting what her patients tell her, but her patients aren't necessarily representative of most students in the pyramids. PP tells us frequently that she'd be happy if her private-school DD goes to a lesser-known university (like Vanderbilt, LOL), but these pyramids have plenty of kids who happily go off to schools like VT, VCU, and JMU with those around them wishing them to the best. I wonder whether they'd get the same reception at Bullis.

Actually, I don't care where she goes to school as long as she's happy. Vanderbilt is in the Heart of Nashville, and any acoustic guitar player would love to spend time there, hence my statement.

I have made it a point to speak with many medical professionals in the area. Langley's reputation is notorious for stress. Do you see all those posters at Langley and the parent seminars and coffee addressing it?

If you look at where Bullis kids go to school, it's all over the map, and that is good, at least for us

The schools that Langley students attend are "all over the map" as well. The only difference is that, because of your own misadventures, you want to portray Langley kids who go to lesser-known schools as disappointments to their families prone to psychological problems, and your Bullis child and her friends who might choose to do so as free-range kids who are allowed to follow their passions. Self-serving doesn't begin to describe it.

+1 My child attends Langley and is surrounded by kids who will be attending VT, JMU, GMU, Mary Washington, Christopher Newport, etc. this fall. Everyone is excited about these schools and no one sees them as a disappointment... at all. I'm not sure where the Langley basher is getting her information, but I imagine she makes it up so she can further bash a school that didn't work out for her daughter. Pretty pathetic.

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Anonymous wrote:Those statements could be attributed to any school and I don't care who says them, it is an opinion-not a fact. And, I am not a part of the McLean Langley community.

Any school with the same demographics, yes. But she IS talking about what she sees in her practice. I have heard the same thing from other medical professionals in the area. I assumed they know of what they speak

A mental health professional whose office is in downtown McLean is going to see more kids from Langley and McLean than from other schools. I will give Dr. Sporn the benefit of the doubt, and assume that she's reporting what her patients tell her, but her patients aren't necessarily representative of most students in the pyramids. PP tells us frequently that she'd be happy if her private-school DD goes to a lesser-known university (like Vanderbilt, LOL), but these pyramids have plenty of kids who happily go off to schools like VT, VCU, and JMU with those around them wishing them to the best. I wonder whether they'd get the same reception at Bullis.

Actually, I don't care where she goes to school as long as she's happy. Vanderbilt is in the Heart of Nashville, and any acoustic guitar player would love to spend time there, hence my statement.

I have made it a point to speak with many medical professionals in the area. Langley's reputation is notorious for stress. Do you see all those posters at Langley and the parent seminars and coffee addressing it?

If you look at where Bullis kids go to school, it's all over the map, and that is good, at least for us

The schools that Langley students attend are "all over the map" as well. The only difference is that, because of your own misadventures, you want to portray Langley kids who go to lesser-known schools as disappointments to their families prone to psychological problems, and your Bullis child and her friends who might choose to do so as free-range kids who are allowed to follow their passions. Self-serving doesn't begin to describe it.

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Anonymous wrote:Those statements could be attributed to any school and I don't care who says them, it is an opinion-not a fact. And, I am not a part of the McLean Langley community.

Any school with the same demographics, yes. But she IS talking about what she sees in her practice. I have heard the same thing from other medical professionals in the area. I assumed they know of what they speak

A mental health professional whose office is in downtown McLean is going to see more kids from Langley and McLean than from other schools. I will give Dr. Sporn the benefit of the doubt, and assume that she's reporting what her patients tell her, but her patients aren't necessarily representative of most students in the pyramids. PP tells us frequently that she'd be happy if her private-school DD goes to a lesser-known university (like Vanderbilt, LOL), but these pyramids have plenty of kids who happily go off to schools like VT, VCU, and JMU with those around them wishing them to the best. I wonder whether they'd get the same reception at Bullis.

Actually, I don't care where she goes to school as long as she's happy. Vanderbilt is in the Heart of Nashville, and any acoustic guitar player would love to spend time there, hence my statement.

I have made it a point to speak with many medical professionals in the area. Langley's reputation is notorious for stress. Do you see all those posters at Langley and the parent seminars and coffee addressing it?

If you look at where Bullis kids go to school, it's all over the map, and that is good, at least for us

The schools that Langley students attend are "all over the map" as well. The only difference is that, because of your own misadventures, you want to portray Langley kids who go to lesser-known schools as disappointments to their families prone to psychological problems, and your Bullis child and her friends who might choose to do so as free-range kids who are allowed to follow their passions. Self-serving doesn't begin to describe it.